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The cool, controlled cop never let his feelings get in the way of his job, and everything he knew about the notorious heiress told him she was poison. But in her irresistible presence, it was hard to remember there was any mystery more important to solve than that of Grace herself.
As her fans well know, in 1979 a blizzard trapped Roberts at home for a week with two bored little kids and a dwindling supply of chocolate. To maintain her sanity, Roberts started scribbling a story -- a romance novel like the Harlequin paperbacks she'd recently begun reading. The resulting manuscript was rejected by Harlequin, but that didn't matter to Roberts. She was hooked on writing. Several rejected manuscripts later, her first book was accepted for publication by Silhouette.
For several years, Roberts wrote category romances for Silhouette -- short books written to the publisher's specifications for length, subject matter and style, and marketed as part of a series of similar books. Roberts has said she never found the form restrictive. "If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations," she explained. "If this doesn't suit you, you shouldn't write it. I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
Roberts never violated the reader's expectations, but she did show a gift for bringing something fresh to the romance formula. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred (1981), had as its heroine a strong-willed horse groom, in contrast to the fluttering young nurses and secretaries who populated most romances at the time. But Roberts's books didn't make significant waves until 1985, when she published Playing the Odds, which introduced the MacGregor clan. It was the first bestseller of many.
Roberts soon made a name for herself as a writer of spellbinding multigenerational sagas, creating families like the Scottish MacGregors, the Irish Donovans and the Ukrainian Stanislaskis. She also began working on romantic suspense novels, in which the love story unfolds beneath a looming threat of violence or disaster. She grew so prolific that she outstripped her publishers' ability to print and market Nora Roberts books, so she created an alter ego, J.D. Robb. Under the pseudonym, she began writing romantic detective novels set in the future. By then, millions of readers had discovered what Publishers Weekly called her "immeasurable diversity and talent."
Although the style and substance of her books has grown, Roberts remains loyal to the genre that launched her career. As she says, "The romance novel at its core celebrates that rush of emotions you have when you are falling in love, and it's a lovely thing to relive those feelings through a book."
Roberts sued fellow writer Janet Dailey in 1997, accusing her of plagiarizing numerous passages of her work over a period of years. Dailey paid a settlement and publicly apologized, blaming stress and a psychological disorder for her misconduct.
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Posted July 10, 2011
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As a Nora Roberts's fan I enjoyed this book very much. I just love the series. It has a story that will keep you entertained for hours.
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Posted July 25, 2001
This book was wonderful. The plot was so good because of Bailey not remembering anything and just coming into Cades office. This book is so good and I cant wait to read the other 2 to see what happens to all the three girls and their love lifes and all the twists and turns that each of their lives take.I would reccommend this set to anyone
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Posted February 8, 2013
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Posted February 7, 2013
I breathe heavily kissing your neck
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Posted February 8, 2013
TO DRAKE: Im back. Where are you? TO DAN: Go to mate result sixteen. I'll meet you there.
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Posted January 20, 2013
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Posted October 13, 2012
I enjoyed this book. It was an easy read, could not put it down.
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Posted July 4, 2012
Better because at least there is a little action but still the same old - same old.
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Posted April 14, 2012
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Posted August 23, 2011
Was nice to have the story finished, but felt the story was very predictable. I usually enjoy Nora Roberts very much but this series was just average to me.
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Posted August 14, 2011
Great summer read
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Posted August 7, 2011
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Posted September 20, 2011
This one was good, but just didn't have the punch of the first one in series
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Posted July 20, 2011
This series of 3 books were great! The story lines had a great combination of suspense and love story. After I had finished one book I had to immediately buy the next one. I would highly recommend this series of books. Happy reading! :)
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Posted July 6, 2011
I have read a lot of her books and I have enjoyed them all!
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Posted September 3, 2008
This book was awesome. I would highly recomend this book.
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Posted April 1, 2002
Have just begun reading Nora Roberts. and do i ever love to find an Author with so many books to her name. That a easy good fun laughing and crying enjoyable books. Dance on the Air is about wife abuse and a brave woman who. travels across the country to get away after faking her death. from her abusive Spouse.
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Overview
He was standing face-to-face with a dead woman...and she was holding a gun. Lieutenant Seth Buchanan's homicide investigation--and his heart--were thrown into turmoil when Grace Fontaine turned up very much alive--and in possession of one of the huge blue diamonds known as the Stars of Mithra.
The cool, controlled cop never let his feelings get in the way of his job, and everything he knew about the notorious heiress told him she was poison. But in her irresistible presence, it...